Stay away from Conan.

Judging from what Miyano Akemi has heard now, if the person who is actually Emoto Masashi's friend deliberately disguised his appearance to approach Kota, asked Kota about the residence of the Emoto siblings, and only wanted to kidnap Kota and extort a ransom from the Emoto siblings, this matter actually doesn't need to be so troublesome -

After all, before this, the man had already used the excuse of "thanking Haota for helping him pick up the wallet" to lure Haota to his residence.

If that person just wanted to kidnap Haota, then the kidnapping would have been completed at that time.

After that, that person only needs to tie up Kota and then send a ransom letter to the residence of the Emoto siblings, and the entire kidnapping process will be completed. There is no need to wait until this time and take advantage of the Emoto siblings not being at home to come here and kidnap Kota -

After all, to be honest, the Emoto siblings would not be at home today because they were attending a social gathering, and the other party could not have known about this in advance. Instead of waiting for an unknown time when the two siblings were not at home, the best time for the so-called kidnapper would be when he had successfully lured Kota.

However, the man did not do so. Instead, after establishing a good relationship with Kota, he asked him some information about the residence of the Emoto siblings and released Kota!

This action is actually very strange. After all, once Kota goes back and tells the Emoto siblings what happened that day, the Emoto siblings might become suspicious of each other's intentions and become defensive.

Therefore, no matter from which angle we analyze it, if the other party simply wants to kidnap, the so-called preparations for kidnapping are not necessary at all, because that time is already the best time to kidnap.

The other party gave up that excellent opportunity. After asking Kota some questions about the residence of the Emoto siblings, he found another opportunity to take action. This does not look like a simple kidnapping.

Of course, there is actually another possibility, that is, the other party originally wanted to kidnap Kota, but because Mr. Masashi Emoto called him that day, he panicked, so he let Kota go.

However, if this is the case, if we look deeper into this point, it is obvious that the other party's actions are very unprofessional.

If the other party had decided to kidnap Haota from the beginning, they should have been prepared on that day.

After all, the means used to deceive Haota that day obviously did not seem to be a spur-of-the-moment idea. For example, something like a rare card could not have been prepared casually, and coupled with the change of appearance, the other party must have made sufficient preparations to deceive Haota.

Therefore, if they were to get scared just because of a phone message from Masashi Emoto and release Kota directly, it would seem that the other party's kidnapping plan was a joke.

Therefore, the more Miyano Akemi thought about it, the more she felt that the other party's purpose was not to kidnap...

——"Yeah! Find out the location of the furniture in advance, and then break in when the two of them are not at home..."

But obviously, the other people did not think in the same direction as Miyano Akemi. After Maori Kogoro said what he just said, Takagi Wataru nodded in agreement and continued to speak, agreeing with this idea.

"Where's the safe in this house?"

Faced with the kidnapping situation, Officer Sato also followed Kogoro Mori's line of thought and asked the Emoto siblings.

In response to this, Jiang Bencai looked helpless and shook her head anxiously:

"There's no safe at all! And when I go out, I usually take my bank cards and passbooks with me, so there's nothing valuable in the house that's worth stealing..."

"That's right!"

So, after hearing this, Maori Kogoro seemed very excited, and said directly and affirmatively:

"It was because the criminal didn't find anything valuable in this house that he chose to kidnap Haotai!"

In this regard, everyone listened to Maori Kogoro's analysis and felt that it made more and more sense - "So, do you remember any friends you invited but did not come to the social gathering today?"

As the others came to their conclusions, the key question became who the criminal was, so Conan immediately started asking about it.

Compared to Miyano Akemi's doubts about the real purpose of the criminal at this moment, Conan's thoughts were more realistic. Since Masashi Emoto was basically certain that the strange person was his friend, he should find this person as soon as possible and rescue Kota.

Therefore, after hearing Conan's question, Masashi Emoto did not feel that there was anything wrong with Conan asking this question, and he answered nervously because of Kota's disappearance:

"Ah! Yes, yes! There are three of them..."

At this point, Masashi Emoto paused for a moment and began to describe the situations of these three people:

"One is called Rokuda Takuer, who was my childhood playmate. The second is my junior in high school, Inuyamon Naru. The third is Sazuka Ryokan, a former frequent visitor to the gym where I work. But I haven't seen him much recently, so I called him to say hello..."

At this point, Masashi Emoto still said with some uncertainty:

"But these three people are all good people. They wouldn't be the kind of people who would kidnap someone, right?"

"Do you remember the time you called them?"

However, Officer Sato did not hesitate because of what Masashi Emoto said and continued to ask questions along the same topic.

"The call to Rokuda was after noon, the call to Hiriya was in the evening... the call to Satsuka was around seven in the evening..."

Seeing Officer Sato's serious look, Masashi Emoto did not neglect it. He quickly took out his mobile phone to check the time of the call record and gave an answer:

"I played them during my free time at work..."

"Hmm... so in this case, the time we call these three people is during the time when Hao Tai is out..."

After listening to this, Maori Kogoro analyzed it a little and felt a headache:

"This won't narrow the scope at all..."

"But if Haotai stayed at that person's house until late, then the person who called Mr. Shi at around 7pm is more suspicious, isn't he? Didn't that person rush Haotai back after listening to Mr. Shi's message?"

After hearing these words, Xiaolan also felt worried about Kota's safety and wanted to do something to help.

"That's true, but it's also possible that after Kota came out of that person's house, he went to other friends' places and showed off the rare card he got to everyone, so he came back late!"

Miwako Sato analyzed:

"And it's also possible that the other party checked the phone recording too late... In this case, there are too many possibilities and none of them can be ruled out..." (End of this chapter)